sad event

[georgy.livejournal.com]

in case you were wondering why no fewer than four news copters were hovering over winter hill/east somerville this afternoon, click here. some jerk driver ran over a teenager at assembly square and killed him.

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[lillibet.livejournal.com]

Not to justify it, but I find the lights in Powderhouse Circle somehow difficult to see. I don't know if they're at weird angles, or I just ignore them because they're always red (usually flashing), or I'm not looking up because I'm focused on the traffic and pedestrians at ground level, or what. After having realized at least twice that I must have run the red entering the circle, because the one at the far side is red, I've learned to be very careful and really look for the solid red.

It is, without a doubt, a very poorly designed rotary, for both cars and pedestrians. I think the thing to do would be to build an underground walkway (I've seen these in similar situations in England) that would lead from the corners into a core at the center, but having the circle under that kind of major construction would also suck.